tyme Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 What daemon/app is it that gives permissions to devices on startup these days? devfs? i think i confused dbus/hal and that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Could mysti do an "ls /dev/hd*" ? I'd like to see the permissions on the drive. James ls /dev/hdc doesn't show permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 tyme got me thinking with his devfs. I was thinking, no we quit using that and it's in lilo. So I went and checked lilo in mandriva and looked for the line which should look like this: append="Gentoo = nodevfs " Unfortunately I had left an o off of Gentoo. I went duh! Edited the line, rebooted and now they work! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 nice now, I believe I remember, the new one is udev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 Yep, you have to emerge udev and it checks it at boot. Thanks though tyme cause without you saying that about devfs I never would have thought to check lilo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Yep, you have to emerge udev and it checks it at boot. Thanks though tyme cause without you saying that about devfs I never would have thought to check lilo.everyone now and then i spit out something partially useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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